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Canada's Labrador Shelf preserves climate records once thought erased by ice

The Labrador Shelf is a shallow marine area on the margin of the Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic off the east coast of Canada. During the last ice age, this region was covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet, one of the largest ice masses in Earth's history, which once covered vast parts of North America.

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Canada's Labrador Shelf preserves climate records once thought erased by ice
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